Good evening all from a sunny and not too hot Almere.
Pete, Ian and
Steve thanks guys.
Managed to finish the last steps on this one, with first replacing the pitot tube with a bit of 0.4mm micro tube.
You can see the kit part above the brass one:
During
rigging of the antenna wires I dropped her on the tail wheel resulting in it breaking at the most fragile place of the strut...
With glue repair not having any success I replaced it with 1mm brass wire:
You can also see the antenna wires with turnbuckles here, the wire is Ushi fine size 0.003 and the buckles are Albion Alloys TB1 0.4x0.25x3mm (1/48 turnbuckles for bi-planes).
Although I could cut them to size myself, I wanted to try these out before the upcoming WW1 GB since I plan to build some bi-planes by then.
Once the tail wheel was touched up and the antenna wires painted black using VJ 71.057, only use acrylics on the Ushi wires since the others tend to affect the stiffness resulting in saggy wires....
Also made a big snafu on the ''danger''
decals on the tail, they were placed with arrows pointing in the wrong way
, good thing VJ varnish can be removed easily and the
decals came off and were promptly placed in the correct position.
Here are the finished photo's for now, I've ordered one of those tents so more in the future:
Although a bit more work than expected, due to the age of the kit design it still was a fun project.
Nice to have another colourful birdie to add to the collection.
Taking a little break before the next one, as I have started work on a little box thingy on rails and want to finish that one first.
More on that one later in the week.
Thanks for looking in and have a great and cool week.
Fernando